SnapNames
Completes One of the Year's 5 Biggest Sales - 2nd Biggest Non .Com
gTLD Sale Also Reported Along With a Top 5 ccTLD Sale

SnapNames
auctioned off Screensavers.com in their Moniker/SnapNames March Showcase
auction and the $335,000 deal was completed this week to take
the pole position on our weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart.
This sale also ranks as the fifth biggest sale reported so
far in 2010.

The Year to Date Country Code and Global
Contenders (non .com gTLDs) charts also welcomed new members to
their top fives this week. Sedo's
$87,049 sale of Pakistan.de (German ccTLD) ranks
#3 on the weekly all extension leader board and has moved into the
#5 spot on the YTD Country Code list (second
chart on this page). Sedo also sold DUIAttorney.org
for $35,000 to take the #5 spot on this week's Big Board and
an even higher position - #2 - on the YTD Global Contenders
chart (third chart on this page).

Those sales, along with a six-figure .com
sale - #2 DolceVita.com at $120,000, helped Sedo sweep
15 of the 21 entries on the weekly all extension elite list (the
extra position resulted from a three-way tie for the final chart
entry).

By
Ron Jackson

Sedo also accounted for five of the six
ccTLD sales that earned spots on the Big Board, including one of the
two that reached the upper half of the chart, #10 Plenty.at (Austrian
country code) at $23,741. Moniker
broke Sedo's ccTLD monopolu by completing the $16,000 sale of
#12 Gaming.ca (Canadian country code), a name they had
auctioned off in their DOMAINfest
Global live auction.

Moniker also had a huge websitesale
this week, handling a $328,023 transaction for FreeDatingUSA.com.

The only venue other than Sedo to claim
multiple chart entries was the AfternicDLS.
They hit the trifecta with a trio of names led by #16 RM2.com
at $12,000.

Here is how all of the sales leaders stacked up for the
week ending Sunday, March 21:

The
DN Journal Top 20Reported
Domain Sales - Mon. March 15, 2010 - Sun. March 21, 2010Euro to Dollar Conversion (€ to $) is Based
on Rates in Effect March 23, 2010

Domain

Sold For

Where
Sold

1.

Screensavers.com

$335,000

Moniker/SnapNames

2.

DolceVita.com

$120,000

Sedo

3.

Pakistan.de

€65,450
= $87,049

Sedo

4.

Schmuck.com

€49,000
= $65,170

Sedo

5.

DUIAttorney.org

$35,000

Sedo

6.

Eramet.com

$33,000

Sedo

7.

SeniorHomes.com

$30,500

Pvt
Sale

8.
tie

DatingSecrets.com

$25,000

Sedo

8.
tie

EROG.com

$25,000

Sedo

10.

Plenty.at

€17,850
= $23,741

Sedo

11.

PersonalVermittlung.de

€13,200
= $17,556

Sedo

12.

Gaming.ca

$16,000

Moniker/DFG
2010

13.

Fatum.com

$15,980

Sedo

14.

DebtRecovery.co.uk

£10,500
= $15,645

Sedo

15.

GearedUp.com

$14,000

Sedo

16.

RM2.com

$12,000

AfternicDLS

17.

Vodkas.com

€9,000
= $11,970

Sedo

18.

Hommage.de

€8,000
= $10,640

Sedo

19.
tie

CityAirlines.com

$10,000

AfternicDLS

19.
tie

FashionFabric.com

$10,000

AfternicDLS

19.
tie

ILoveLondon.com

$10,000

Sedo

Keep in mind that these are the highest
value sales that have been reported to us in the
past week. This column is meant to be an educational tool,
not a complete list documenting ALL high
value domain sales. Such a list is impossible to produce
because many sales are kept private at the insistence of
buyers, sellers or both. Our procedure for verifying the
accuracy of domain sales reports is available here.

Forthe many newcomers entering the domain
industry we also want to point out that the reasons why a domain name sells for a certain price can be varied and are not always clear to those who are unfamiliar with the domain market.
If you do not understand why specific domain names command the
prices they do, you are likely to make unwise domain registrations or purchases.
We highly recommend that you do some basic research beforeyou buyanything! As a starting point we have
built a sister site specifically for you at NameNewbie.com.

Sedo led the four-figure .com supporting cast with TourGuides.com
at $9,999 and LakeDistrictHotels.com at $9,100.
Their roster also included VeraPizza.com ($6,650), InsuranceCar.com
($6,550) and DenverCityProperties.com ($6,500).

Sedo had 33 more .com sales ranging from
$2,000 to $5,000 that are listed in the table below:

Additional
Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $5,000

activitygifts.com

$5,000

fgusa.com

$3,140

atticinsulationinformation.com

$5,000

weltwetter.com

$3,059

firtex.com

$5,000

emeralclub.com

$2,993

parentix.com

$5,000

cleverman.com

$2,926

thethreads.com

$5,000

trouvezachetez.com

$2,713

paydayguarantee.com

$4,900

hoa123.com

$2,700

trier.com

$4,500

slotty.com

$2,680

vuma.com

$4,500

katayama.com

$2,660

gerontechnology.com

$4,256

onlinedubai.com

$2,660

masonicring.com

$4,000

notimetocook.com

$2,500

estanciaelcarmen.com

$3,900

ulpro.com

$2,499

webhostinghub.com

$3,688

theebookshop.com

$2,213

golf-usa.com

$3,610

3ddvds.com

$2,200

obnoxious.com

$3,600

freeldsdating.com

$2,000

rawjustice.com

$3,500

internationalcoaching.com

$2,000

waybetter.com

$3,500

westcoastcontacts.com

$2,000

waaw.com

$3,150

Moniker banked $9,079 each for 2888.com
and 8882.com while SimpleCAD.com added $4,075
and Netsurance.com notched $3,575. In another
completed sale from their
DOMAINfest Global auction, Clairvoyants.com collected $6,000.

At WinnerNames.comPriceFund.com produced $8,000, FortuneLLC.com
found $6,500 and AvatarCapital.com cornered $6,000.

Elsewhere ModernDomain.com
sold EDPR.com for $4,050 and ProteinCookies.com
changed hands for $2,500 in a private sale.

Country Codes

One of the year's five biggest country code
sales helped the ccTLDs post still another outstanding week.
As we told you in the all extension section at the top of this
report, the $87,049 sale of Pakistan.de at Sedo ranks
#5 on the ccTLD year-to-date
leader board (2nd chart on this page). That price also
makes it #1 on our new weekly ccTLD Top 20 Chart, followed by
the five other five-figure country code sales that also made the all
extension Top 20 you saw earlier.

The highest ccTLD sales you haven't see yet are a
trio of domains tied for the #7 position at $6,650 each; Megapreis.de,
Springkussen.nl and Zuno.ro. Those domains represent
Germany, the Netherlands and Romania respectively.

Sedo accounted for all three of those sales and went
on to sweep 18 of the 22 chart positions (the extra spots resulted
from a four-way tie for the final position). Sedo's chart roster
included a trio of IDNs, led by #16 Bücher.eu at
$3,731.

Here is how the
country code leaders stacked
up for the week ending March 21:

Country
Code Top 20 Highest
Reported ccTLD Sales: Mon. March 15, 2010 - Sun.
March 21, 2010Euro to Dollar Conversion (€ to $) is Based
on Rates in Effect Tue. March 23, 2010

There were several dozen additional four
figure sales off the ccTLD chart and again Sedo accounted for the
vast majority of those. Their supplemental roster was led by a
five-domain group at $2,660 each that included Blaustein.cn,
GameCash.nl, Guns.eu, Plasticos.com.ar and Scandinavianpark.dk.

Sedo had 44 more country code sales ranging
from $1,000 to $2,527 that are listed in the chart
below:

Additional
Sedo ccTLD Sales Between $1,000 - $2,527

slippers.eu

$2,527

madura.nl

$1,430

eurotire.eu

$2,500

coffre.fr

$1,397

anfiteatroromano.it

$2,394

avatares.es

$1,330

dot.ey

$2,128

bbmedia.co.uk

$1,330

erotic-city.de

$2,128

kennelclub.co.uk

$1,330

makler-manager.de

$2,128

rbsm.pl

$1,330

growshops.eu

$1,995

sportstudio.de

$1,330

looki.ru

$1,862

zavvi.it

$1,330

pipelife.eu

$1,862

haartransplantation.eu

$1,329

showgirl.ch

$1,862

easyet.es

$1,197

webpost.it

$1,862

animatics.de

$1,131

englishlakes.co.uk

$1,788

nationaltrainer.de

$1,131

techguy.tv

$1,750

wts.at

$1,131

jan.eu

$1,728

top10phones.co.uk

$1,118

hotelamsterdam.it

$1,663

babyfirst.de

$1,097

hagelschaden.eu

$1,596

embutidos.es

$1,064

masterpieces.de

$1,596

freeonlinegames.eu

$1,064

oiv.de

$1,583

udp.nl

$1,064

ibfx.com.au

$1,500

10dollar.cn

$1,000

timco.co.uk

$1,489

allhotels.com.ar

$1,000

hapjes.be

$1,463

jbv.it

$1,000

nkonlinepoker.nl

$1,463

lol.mx

$1,000

Elsewhere NetFleet.com.au
sold CompareSuperFunds.com.au for $1,840 and ElectricitySuppliers.com.au
for $1,012 and NoktaDomains.com
moved WeightBench.co.uk for $1,200.

If there are country code extensions in our report
that you are not familiar with, you can look up the nation each
extension goes with here.

The non .com Global Contenders had only one
five-figure sale this week (and only five have been reported over the
past three weeks), however this one was a big one. As we noted
earlier DUIAttorney.org, sold at Sedo for $35,000,
now ranks as the second biggest sale year
to date in this category (third chart on the
page).

The top GC sale you haven't seen yet is #2 FinancialPlanners.net,
also sold by Sedo for $8,500. Sedo went on to sweep 14 of
the 20 chart entries. The AfternicDLS claimed five positions on
the new GC Top 20 Chart led by #3 Intext.net at $6,400.

That left just one spot that went to a private
sale in which #12 (tie) SMB.biz changed hands for $4,000.

Here's how all of the Global Contenders stacked up for the
week ending March 21:

There were several dozen additional GC sales just
off the chart. The Afternic DLS had four of those led by EmergencyPreparedness.org
at $3,000. They also sold LeadsGeneration.net ($2,988),
AdultCostumes.org ($2,888) and CountySheriff.org
($2,588).

Sedo had 26 more non .com gTLD sales
ranging from $1,000 to $2,500 that you can review in the table below:

Additional
Sedo GC Sales Between $1,000 - $2,500

bitdefender.net

$2,500

tpa.org

$1,550

hives.org

$2,500

3dtvs.info

$1,500

spania.org

$2,128

bueroservice.info

$1,463

3dgames.info

$1,995

wetterstationen.org

$1,329

keuken.biz

$1,995

ree.org

$1,300

glaube.net

$1,988

qbi.net

$1,299

fahrradhelm.net

$1,899

madein.net

$1,264

smartwords.net

$1,888

fidschi.net

$1,197

teamsport.net

$1,805

nge.net

$1,100

candyapple.net

$1,800

thaiboxen.info

$1,064

location-vacances.org

$1,796

folder.net

$1,050

weltreise.org

$1,796

preisvergleicher.org

$1,035

phototour.net

$1,588

icemaker.net

$1,000

Elsewhere GoDaddyAuctions.com booked $3,000
with FullMovies.net.

Now that you're up to date on what happened over the
past week, check out how the leaders stand year to date in all
categories by visiting our Year
To Date Charts page.

*****

As always, we welcome all verifiable sales reports from companies,
private sellers or individuals with knowledge of an important sale
made through any channel. To contribute information and help make
this column better, just drop a note to editor@dnjournal.com.

We truly appreciate the industry leading
companies who share their sales information
with us to help everyone in the business get a handle on current
domain values. Richard
Meyer of Domain Sales Center also provides invaluable help
in collecting data for these sales
reports each week.

Every Tuesday night or Wednesday
morning we publish the highest reported domain name
sales for the previous week. On Mondays and Tuesdays our contributors send us
their sales data for the previous 7 days. We then compile that
information and write this article to give
you the most comprehensive sales report in the industry.

Editor's Note: If you wish to review previous Domain
Sales columns, they are available in our Archive.